It has been a while since I posted some street work. This has been sitting in my library for over a year. I crossed the street to get a shot closer to the couple, and meant to get even closer but traffic interfered. Tweet
I took my first Bus Stop and Crosswalk shots on March 1, 2010. I had a new 85mm f/1.4 lens and wanted to see how well it performed at night. That was my only goal. I also had an idea to walk up to a street about a half mile from my office that I...
For the past few months, the decision of which image to post as number 100 for both the Crosswalk and Bus Stop series caused me to sweat a little. I did not want the pressure of picking the absolute best image, as my opinions vary over time and I do a poor job sometimes of...
Yo, people — the bus comes THIS way. TEMPORARY NOTICE: The site that hosts my images suffered an outage this morning, I’ll leave this notice up the rest of the days in case it recurs. Tweet
You have to play the music for the full effect, and to discover what this reminded me of. Technical note: the embedded music player works for me when I view the post directly, but not when I view the post on the home page. Please let me know if you have problems. Tweet
I want to thank everyone who responded to my request for site design feedback on yesterday’s post, both in the comments and on Twitter. I’m not going to do anything immediately with the site, and I might just leave it as it is, but I have already made a change to the view you get...
This is from little more than a month ago, from the time this winter when it seemed it would never again be warm, or that we would even be free of snow. Spring isn’t here yet, but it hasn’t snowed since the day of this image and we have had several warmish days, and the...
In my article last week putting forth Five Tips for Night Time Street Photography, I mentioned that you will often have to shoot at speeds as low as 1/40. This shot was taken at 1/15 and the people standing at the bus stop are pretty sharp. For example, look at the crease on the man’s...
i just got back from a long weekend in Florida and am not happy about returning to the cold, so I’m posting this Crosswalk image from last April with nice Spring weather. Tweet
Shooting street photography at night generates special problems beyond those usually facing street photographers. Most of them have to do with light, and most, but not all of them have to do with the relative lack of light. The following is a list of 5 tips for night time street photography. As such, it does...